Posted by Captain Paralytic on 04/23/07 12:58

On 23 Apr, 12:38, strawberry <zac.ca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 23, 10:46 am, "Boris Savc" <boris.s...@siol.net> wrote:
>
> > Sorry for confuzing subject, but that's the thing I'm trying to achieve. For
> > example:
>
> > $a = "Hello";
> > $b = 1;
>
> > I want to change the name of $a to $a1 where 1 is value of variable $b!
>
> > Thanks for all the help,
> > Boris
>
> This has nothing to do with sql, but anyway:
>
> <?php
> $a = "hello";
> $b = "world";
> $a.= $b;
> echo $a;
> ?>

That would produce "helloworld"

He didn't say that he wanted to concatenate the contents, he said he
wanted a new variable name.

I have to wonder why he wants to do this. I would normally use an
associative array:

$a[$b] = $a;

but you could say:

$b = "a{$b}";
$$b = $a;
unset($a);

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